The trade deficit between the USA and EU has never been $150 billion, the largest it ever was in 2015 when the balance was $122 billion.
And it isn't strange for US to import from the EU since the stuff imported are more expensive, poorer quality or unavailable in the US.
Members of NATO do pay to NATO based on their GNI but some members hasn't built up their military to the levels stipulated in the charter. The NATO members in Europe have been increasing their spending on the military since 2014. The US defense contribution to Europe amounts only to about 5% of their total NATO budget, for 2019 that amounts to $6.5 billion compared to $239 billion spent by the European members.
And your quip about "Why are we even in NATO any more?" does indicate you don't understand the role it plays in the world today.
Also, what you heard doesn't necessarily have any connection to what really happens.
I would say Toyota is right about some things but it's not what the market wants out of new vehicles today so they have to spin it anyway they can to keep up.
Where I live hybrids are better since the distances involved getting to a major city involves some pretty advanced travel planning if you are driving an EV which means the distance can increase with up to 50% to accommodate charging stations. Plus, it gets really cold during the winter which reduces any EV to a frozen lump that can travel at best 60% of their stated range which complicates things further.
Which also explains why everyone I know who bought an EV also has a gas guzzler or a hybrid as a second car.
Do you have a citation for your assertion that fact checkers don't check the facts?
Also, if a site creates news that has not bearing on the truth that site should get black-holed in my opinion - even though they may have real news too. This is because otherwise you legitimize the made up shit by saying "But! They have real news too!"
Instead of treating their customers as beta-testers in some regards while siphoning up telemetry data they could put some effort into making their products a bit more robust while at the same produce sane error messages and stop putting out useless updates that for example upgrades Notepad to "The 3D Extravaganza VR Experience DELUXE Version (now with multi-strawberry pixel-sounds!)".
Imagine you buy a new car, after a month it wont start with a message on the dash saying "Ops! Something went wrong!" and nothing else. You get it towed to a Certified Mechanicâ that diagnoses the fault while charging you a bunch of money. He informs you that the car wont start because one of your tires has a too low pressure and wonder if you want to swap it out whereupon you go WTF? while wondering why the heck the original message on the dash couldn't have told you about the low pressure so you could have adjusted it.
That's the experience many MS products leaves us right now.
"All online traffic should be treated equally, and Internet service providers should not discriminate against particular content or applications for competitive advantage purposes or otherwise."
You can't just take something out of it's context and make a meaningful argument.
UBI could help some of the poor to change their situation for the better but it will not fix the root of the problems and as long as that persists we will have poor people no matter what "band aids" are used.
..but I read 'Coal Miners Use New Tricks To Impersonate Adobe Flash Installers' and couldn't understand why there would be a need for a someone to be a dedicated adobe flash installer and why a coal miner would have the need to impersonate said person since there are probably more opportunities in the coal mining business...
The hose and the funnel works in the same way, they are equally inefficient for transmit and receive given the same size. As soon as the distance increase you get an increased loss, exactly the same as with electrical antennas.
The ratio of loss vs distance is of course not the same due to the different physics involved but if you purely look on the signal strength from a receiving antenna size matters, exactly as with the amount of water a larger funnel can catch.
You can make the transmitting antenna very small compared to the receiving antenna.
An analogy would be spraying water from a hose (transmitting) where the diameter can very small and the water exits at a much higher speed (energy density). To receive the water in useful quantities you can't use a funnel with the same size as the hose, instead you need to scale the funnel up many magnitudes (size dependent on the distance between the hose and the funnel)..
The atomic receiver in this scenario is equivalent to a funnel that's actually smaller than the hose regardless of the distance between the two.
I cannot fathom why anyone would mod you up as insightful.
There is a huge difference between copyright infringement and industrial espionage.
Theft of information can deprive someone of something - exclusivity. Theft of a song may deprive a record company or artist of a sale, but not exclusivity.
The problem with this solution is that you get a society that stagnates and ossifies. It's a simple solution for a complex problem that causes more problems in the end.
Anyone fighting for social change would be labeled as antisocial and suddenly their rights are heavily circumscribed.
Those who think this is a good idea is the same type of people who want to treat the symptoms rather than the cause.
The funny thing about MSR is that the US had experimental reactors running and had tons of knowledge about them, but it was more or less deep sixed since LWR was the way to go so the military could get their fissionables for atomic weapons.
All meltdowns to date (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl & Fukushima) has been LWR's. Due to how LWR's function they are all accidents waiting to happen if their cooling breaks down.
China is busy trying to get Thorium MSR's up and running since they are better in all aspects compared to LWR, and Thorium is a much more abundant ore than Uranium.
Slashdot Mirror
Hint: For some reason they couldn't use existing infrastructure (like poles) to deploy their fiber...
I've seen it used successfully, but not as shallow as 2 inches.
But I think what people are missing here is to question WHY Google had to go with the technique in the first place.
The trade deficit between the USA and EU has never been $150 billion, the largest it ever was in 2015 when the balance was $122 billion.
And it isn't strange for US to import from the EU since the stuff imported are more expensive, poorer quality or unavailable in the US.
Members of NATO do pay to NATO based on their GNI but some members hasn't built up their military to the levels stipulated in the charter. The NATO members in Europe have been increasing their spending on the military since 2014. The US defense contribution to Europe amounts only to about 5% of their total NATO budget, for 2019 that amounts to $6.5 billion compared to $239 billion spent by the European members.
And your quip about "Why are we even in NATO any more?" does indicate you don't understand the role it plays in the world today.
Also, what you heard doesn't necessarily have any connection to what really happens.
I would say Toyota is right about some things but it's not what the market wants out of new vehicles today so they have to spin it anyway they can to keep up.
Where I live hybrids are better since the distances involved getting to a major city involves some pretty advanced travel planning if you are driving an EV which means the distance can increase with up to 50% to accommodate charging stations. Plus, it gets really cold during the winter which reduces any EV to a frozen lump that can travel at best 60% of their stated range which complicates things further.
Which also explains why everyone I know who bought an EV also has a gas guzzler or a hybrid as a second car.
Uhm, there are a lot of things going on in China that's fsck up.
For example:
China's hidden camps
Organ harvesting in China
Mass sterilization in China
Just go to google and start typing china forced to see the common theme.
If you car shows a "check engine" light when your tire pressure is low it may have been built by Microsoft.
Do you have a citation for your assertion that fact checkers don't check the facts?
Also, if a site creates news that has not bearing on the truth that site should get black-holed in my opinion - even though they may have real news too. This is because otherwise you legitimize the made up shit by saying "But! They have real news too!"
Instead of treating their customers as beta-testers in some regards while siphoning up telemetry data they could put some effort into making their products a bit more robust while at the same produce sane error messages and stop putting out useless updates that for example upgrades Notepad to "The 3D Extravaganza VR Experience DELUXE Version (now with multi-strawberry pixel-sounds!)".
Imagine you buy a new car, after a month it wont start with a message on the dash saying "Ops! Something went wrong!" and nothing else. You get it towed to a Certified Mechanicâ that diagnoses the fault while charging you a bunch of money. He informs you that the car wont start because one of your tires has a too low pressure and wonder if you want to swap it out whereupon you go WTF? while wondering why the heck the original message on the dash couldn't have told you about the low pressure so you could have adjusted it.
That's the experience many MS products leaves us right now.
Anyway, rant over...
You can rest easy that for every other strange problem in Azure there is an arcane powershell-script lurking on some Azure-blog that fixes it. /s
That's why I have a separate browser just for facebook for the few times I use it...
Some people I know use firefox multi-account containers to separate the browsing together with multiple ad/script-block plugins.
"All online traffic should be treated equally, and Internet service providers should not discriminate against particular content or applications for competitive advantage purposes or otherwise."
You can't just take something out of it's context and make a meaningful argument.
...is a sign of a systemic problem in society.
UBI could help some of the poor to change their situation for the better but it will not fix the root of the problems and as long as that persists we will have poor people no matter what "band aids" are used.
..but I read 'Coal Miners Use New Tricks To Impersonate Adobe Flash Installers' and couldn't understand why there would be a need for a someone to be a dedicated adobe flash installer and why a coal miner would have the need to impersonate said person since there are probably more opportunities in the coal mining business...
IDK, it couldn't be that they made the video so other employees that couldn't attend also got the info from the Q&A...
The hose and the funnel works in the same way, they are equally inefficient for transmit and receive given the same size. As soon as the distance increase you get an increased loss, exactly the same as with electrical antennas.
The ratio of loss vs distance is of course not the same due to the different physics involved but if you purely look on the signal strength from a receiving antenna size matters, exactly as with the amount of water a larger funnel can catch.
You can make the transmitting antenna very small compared to the receiving antenna.
An analogy would be spraying water from a hose (transmitting) where the diameter can very small and the water exits at a much higher speed (energy density). To receive the water in useful quantities you can't use a funnel with the same size as the hose, instead you need to scale the funnel up many magnitudes (size dependent on the distance between the hose and the funnel)..
The atomic receiver in this scenario is equivalent to a funnel that's actually smaller than the hose regardless of the distance between the two.
...when what is considered indecent is decided by those in power?
I used to have an account with them, but I switched since they where nickel and diming everything plus they started charging extra for handling cash.
I cannot fathom why anyone would mod you up as insightful.
There is a huge difference between copyright infringement and industrial espionage.
Theft of information can deprive someone of something - exclusivity. Theft of a song may deprive a record company or artist of a sale, but not exclusivity.
Brain storm or Green needle:
https://youtu.be/5pRY3wlKwm8
Anticipate the word you want to hear and you will hear it.
The problem with this solution is that you get a society that stagnates and ossifies. It's a simple solution for a complex problem that causes more problems in the end.
Anyone fighting for social change would be labeled as antisocial and suddenly their rights are heavily circumscribed.
Those who think this is a good idea is the same type of people who want to treat the symptoms rather than the cause.
Yes they have, it's just that they are unusable until they are separated and enriched from the spent fuel.
The funny thing about MSR is that the US had experimental reactors running and had tons of knowledge about them, but it was more or less deep sixed since LWR was the way to go so the military could get their fissionables for atomic weapons.
All meltdowns to date (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl & Fukushima) has been LWR's. Due to how LWR's function they are all accidents waiting to happen if their cooling breaks down.
China is busy trying to get Thorium MSR's up and running since they are better in all aspects compared to LWR, and Thorium is a much more abundant ore than Uranium.
Yeah, that DLC is really, really expensive...
I wonder if they used buggy whips on the offending cars...